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John Chrysostom
John Chrysostom

Reputation: 3973

Datatables trouble with fnGetPosition

I have a table that I'm using with the jQuery datatables API. In some of the cells in that table, I have links with the class adder. When the user clicks that link, I need to get the index location of that row, so that I can do some processing. I'm using the following code to test it out:

$('.adder').click(function() {
    alert(searchTable.fnGetPosition($(this).parent().parent()));
    return false;
});

My expectation based on the API documentation is that this would alert the index of the row in question. The parent of the a element should be the td element, and the parent of that is the tr element. However, when I click one of the links, what is actually happening is that the whole table is just refreshing. Nothing shows up in the javascript console...

Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4647

Answers (1)

JustinMichaels
JustinMichaels

Reputation: 1092

This is because the parent of the parent is a jQuery object and not a tablerow element or table cell element. Since it appears you want the table row element then I would do something like this.

$('.adder').click(function() {
    alert(searchTable.fnGetPosition($(this).parent().parent()[0]));
    return false;
});

Here's the documentation for this api call as well in case you missed it.

Upvotes: 5

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